Bait



Feb- 1521927' H. F. HEIMBURGE BAT Filed oct. 19". 1926 [ferm an imburge,

Patented Feb. 15, 1927.

l v11,613,083v

.UNITED sTArEsPATE'Nr OFFICE.

HERMAN F. HEIMBURGE, F TROY', NEW YORK.

` A BAIT f/ Application led October 19, 1926. Serial ANo. 142,592.

` 'lhc invention has for an object to effect an improvement'inartificial bait, and aims especially to provide an element of novelconstruction well .adapted to be associated with other bait elements tocooperate therewith in a novel way, as well. It is an important aim toprovide a very simple 'and cheaply manufactured device of the kind whichwill be highlyeiioient and liable in a minimum degree to derangement, asWell as being readily manipulated by inexperienced anglers to goodadvantage.

Additional objects, advantages and features of invention reside in theconstruction, l5 arrangement and combination ofparts, which will beunderstood from the following description and accompanying drawingsrinFigure 1 of which the bait is shown in use after one method.

Figure 2 is a top view of the bait body. Figure 3 is a bottom viewthereof, Figure 4 is a side elevation thereof. Figure 5 is a detail of'apreferred method of shaping a pork-rind comprising a part of this bait.f

Figure 6 illustrates a stage of procedure in the application of thepork-rind to the bait.

Figure 7 shows a further stage of manipu lation in applying the rind.

There is illustrated in Figure 1 a portion of a fish-line 10, on whicha. bait is carried` comprising my invention but in advance of the baitthere is shown a spoon device 11 attached in accordance with usualpractice, and which does noty itselfcomprise -a novel part of myinvention, but when so used cooperates with the bait elementtherebehind. There is shown an articulated bait body 12, cast orotherwise formed of solid metal such as brass or copper, fin astream-line form, somewhatrounded at the forward or left-hand end, andslightly more tapered toward the rear end. A11v eye 13 is aiiixed tothelforward extremity of the bait-body slightly above the longitudinalaxis or the center of gravity, as may be seen in Figure 4, and a similareye 14 may be likewise fixed at the rear end of the baitl body. The`bait-body is divided transversely approximately midway of its length,the two sections being connected by the equivalent of a universal joint,in the present instance consisting of two interengaged eyes 15 of wireembedded in or formed on respective sections of the bait'- to eachother. It is desired to vform the baitbody, and arranged in planes atright angles body withan articulation in a manner to f present anappearance of continuity as nearly as possible, and for this purpose theupper side of the sections are recessed at their abuttingJends tocontain theeyes,'as shown at 16 in Figure 2, these recesses permittingthe necessary free movement of the eyes relatively` to each other forfree flexing action of the parts, and novel sinuous movements which areinduced when the parts vare in action, as

will be described.

The eye y15 in each section is contained principally within .the recessof the section, and the eyes are connected to each other between thesections in suchvmanner thattbey engage mutually against longitudinalpull adjacent or above the top of the bait-body, so that it is quitefree to flex upwardly', but has limited-flexing action downwardly as maybe appreciated from Figure 4, there being a very slight spacing betweenthe baitbody sections at the middle when they are arranged on a commonlongitudinal axis. The two sections of the bait-body are also providedwith smaller recesses 17 on the bottom side somewhat similar to therecesses on the top side, which recesses have the purpose of aiding incausing peculiar movements of the bait by the action of water thereuponwhen the bait is drawn through -the water while submerged. The recessesin the upper side of the bait-body serve to lighten it, which, togetherwith the attachment ofthe eyes 13 and 14 above the center of gravity l0of the bait serve to cause the positioning of the bait with the top sideuppermost when it is 1drawn through the water by the forward eye 3.

There. is'shown engaged on the rear eye 14 a double hook 18 of familiarconstruction, the twohooks lthereof having respective shanks extendedfrom the opposite sides of .an eye-portion `20, of which they form anintegral continuation. The Shanks are slightly separated at theirjunction with the eye, but spaced not quite the thickness of the wire ofwhich the eye 14 is formed, so that when the eye 14 is engaged-in theeye 20, liability of casual derangement of the parts from properoperative relation is minimized. A pork-rind l25 is shown, having aforward apertured end engaged snugly around the smaller part of the eye14, while the Shanks .of the hooks 18 are extended throu h a short 110transverse slot 26 intermediately ocated in the pork-rind ashort-distance rearwardly of A that the points of the the Ork-rind arefree to oscillate on the eye 14 reely and in all directions. In the atitachment of the pork-rind and hooks 18 the rind is cut with alongitudinal slit 27 at its forward end, and the transverse slit 26 isthen made at a distance from the 'outer end ot the first slitcorresponding to the dis-v tance from the base of the eye 14 to thepoints on the Shanks of the double hook where the Shanks are to passVthrough thel rind, as shown in Figure 1. The hooks 18 being disengagedfrom the eye 14, the slot 27 of the rind is first engaged over the eye14, and the bait looped between the two slits and the intermediate slit26 then forced also over the eye 14 and thrust forwardly against thebody of the bait while the oint of one of the hooks is inserted throngthe eye 14, after the manner shown in Figure 7. 'lhe hooks being drawninto position, with the eye 14 engaged in the common eye 2O of thehook-Shanks, the slit 26 in the bait is then forced rearwardl over theeye 14 and the hook-Shanks until it reaches the osition indicated-inFigure 1, when' the bait 1s ready for use. v

A spoon 11 being connected to the forward end of the bait-body as shownin Figure 1, and the pork-rind being applied as described, when theassembly is drawn through the water the operation of the spoon in conjunction with the particular construction of my bait results in a verysinuous action of the bait which has been found highly efcient ininducing fish to strike thereon. The articulation of the bait-body inthe manner shown permits `'the rear portion to set at a slight angle tothe upper portion, in

to the sinuous motion of the bait assemb y. Further, the manner ofattaching the bacon rind permitting as it does a relative pivotalmovement of the rind and hook with relation to the rear section of thebait body, adds fur- ,ther to the iiexbility of the parts and thesinuous motion of the assembly with an inexpensive construction. lt isan especiall important advantage of my bait that in tro 1mg, by theaction of the bait-body, the hooks are maintained with the points uwardly, and by the method of attaching t e pork-rind, the bait operatesas a nonfouling bait and hook, the pork-rind tending to ride l over themarine growth which might otherwise become engaged in the hook 5 and atthe same time the hooks are maintalned in a golsition to mostefficiently snare a striking Ii claim:

1. In a bait Aof the character described, a

bait body of stream-line form divided transversely, the forward and rearparts having univer-:al pivot connection, and a combined food bait andhook portion having a universal pivot connection with the rear extremityof said body.

2. lin a bait of the character described, a stream-line body dividedtransversely, and having recesses opening on the mutually abuttingparts, respective eye members in each section within the recess, the twoeyes interengaged to orm a ivot, located above the center of gravity oft e parts when alined and means to connect other elements at theextremity of each section.

3. IThe structure of claim 2 including also a hook detachably connectedto the rear extremity of the said body,l and a rind-like elementapertured at the forward extremity and intermediately, and receiving thehook and connection therethrough, saidzhook projecting upwardlytherefrom.

ln testimony whereof l adir; my signature.

. HERMAN r. nari/ramen.

